Greening China’s overseas energy projects
New database from Boston University’s Global Policy Center shows the biggest share of Chinese global power investment going into coal but renewables projects on the…
Fossil Fuels
In a Fight Over a Colombian Coal Mine, Covid-19 Raises the Stakes
The Indigenous Wayuu people have long battled the Cerrejón coal mine. Amid Covid-19, they’re now appealing to the U.N. Luz Ángela Uriana’s voice trembled as she…
HYFLEXPOWER: The world’s first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine demonstrator
– Green hydrogen project launched in May 2020 – Decarbonizing a paper factory by modernizing an existing combined heat and power plant in France With…
A power-to-gas system integrating co-electrolysis and methanation
Researchers in Italy extensively analyzed four different configurations of their proposed system to assess its potential, including under non-optimal, ‘off-design’ conditions and concluded that, for…
Big in Japan
Japan’s energy policy made headlines in July, when the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced plans to phase out older, inefficient coal plants, along…
The big Muddy River’s long, turbulent relationship with coal
Southern Illinois has been coal country for quite some time. Men first mined coal there in 1810, when they took the black rock from outcroppings…
Energy’s lost weekend
The coronavirus pandemic is first and foremost a health crisis, but it will have long-lasting effects on most areas of the global economy, not least…
Carbon Emissions Turned Back 10 Years
Data show coronavirus countermeasures have resulted in a record drop in fossil-fuel demand and created an opening for a clean-energy transition. The early months of 2020…
India’s future energy options all add up to coal, agree the experts
Originally published by PV Magazine. Panellists including a government representative and a member of the chief policy thinktank used by Narendra Modi agreed coal will…
Weaponing the Numbers: The Hidden Agenda behind the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform
Among progressives concerned about climate change, few issues provoke as much anger as the knowledge that governments continue to subsidize fossil fuels. According to the…
The Carbon Brief Profile: Canada
In the latest article in a series on how some of the world’s key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief considers Canada’s relationship…
Undone Science: When Research Fails Polluted Communities
It was nearly 30 years ago when Debbie Blackburn and her husband Scott bought a boxy, postwar house six blocks from the Ohio River in…
UN report: Pollution from planned fossil fuel production would overshoot Paris climate goals
In the 2015 international Paris Climate Agreement, nearly every country [see editor’s note] agreed to try and limit global warming to no more than 2…